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24/11/2024

🇬🇧 The First Rooftop of Milan

Today, there are countless places where you can admire Milan from above, but in the 19th century, it was much more challenging—one had to climb all the floors on foot!

It’s 1881. A young engineer, August Stigler, moved to Milan, where he founded the Officine Meccaniche Stigler for the construction of elevators. In Milan, Stigler designed and patented a brand-new type of elevator: the hydraulic elevator.

Stigler thought that the Esposizioni Riunite (a public exhibition held in the Porta Venezia Gardens) would be the perfect place to present this ingenious elevator to the people of Milan. So, the engineer decided to build a 40-meter-high tower in the gardens, equipped with a platform that offered a new perspective of the city. Visitors could ascend the tower either by climbing helical staircases or by using the futuristic elevator.

Years later, the exhibition was moved to Parco Sempione, where a second steel tower was erected, standing 50 meters tall. This tower was later dismantled during the war to recover its materials (it was not the current Torre Branca).

Thus, Milan’s passion for heights was born.

In the last slide, you can see Stigler’s tower in the Porta Venezia Gardens.

15/11/2024

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31/10/2024

🇬🇧The hermit who lived on the roof of the Milan Cathedral

Few know the story of the Milanese Hunchback of Notre Dame. It was 1651, and the cathedral was not yet fully completed. Next to the staircase, there was an unauthorized stone structure (visible in this old print).

A homeless man lived there, nicknamed “the Hermit” by the Milanese. Around the cathedral, various materials for the construction site were stored, which he used to create a shelter.

As the construction work progressed, the laborers had to clear out his dwelling, leaving him without a place to sleep. The workers from the Fabbrica themselves decided to build him a new shelter, much safer than the one he had before.

In fact, they built a proper hut for him on the roof of the cathedral. The hermit lived undisturbed on the roof of Milan Cathedral for nine years, until his death in 1660.

27/10/2024

Why people step on the bull’s balls

Every year, thousands of superstitious people step on the “poor” bull’s balls in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele. Three turns for a bit of luck! But few know the origin of this ritual.

When the galleria was designed, it was decided that the floor would feature the symbol of the city of Milan. The 19th-century mosaic is surrounded by symbols of other Italian cities, such as the lily of Florence, the she-wolf of Rome, and the bull representing Turin.

At the end of the 19th century, students would gather in the octagon of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele to celebrate midnight on December 31, welcoming the new year in a symbolic place of the city. In those years, the Savoy dynasty ruled over Italy. Stepping on the bull’s balls became a way for young people to mock the House of Savoy, and doing it at midnight on December 31 was believed to bring a year full of luck.

26/09/2024

🇬🇧 The True Meaning of the song “Maracaibo””

Maracaibo, one of the most famous Italian songs of all time, was born in our city in 1981. It was written and sung by the Milanese artist Lu Colombo...
But few people know the true meaning of this song!

Zazà is a Cuban dancer who performs (naked) in a club, the Barracuda, which is actually just a front for arms trafficking. Zazà has a relationship with Miguel, but he’s never around, always “in the Cordillera from morning till night.” So, she consoles herself with Pedro, letting him embrace her “on crates of nitroglycerin”...

Interestingly, Miguel was originally supposed to be called Fidel, directly referring to Fidel Castro, but that choice was eventually abandoned.

Problems arise when Miguel returns and discovers Zazà and Pedro together. In a fit of rage, he shoots. Zazà then flees by sea, but is caught in a storm...
The boat’s mast breaks, and our heroine is even bitten by a shark, but in the end, she manages to survive and reach land.

Now, Zazà is the owner of a brothel, weighs 130 kg, and has a weakness for rum and co***ne, but she remains a splendid queen nonetheless!

Finally, “if you are courteous,” she will grant herself to you and show you that scar from many years ago, “a white fang like the moon.”

09/09/2024

🇬🇧 Who is the Pierino from the jokes?

Pierino is the funny protagonist of many Italian jokes, and we all know him, but where does he come from?

Few people know that Pierino is from Milan. His character was created in the early 1900s by the illustrator Antonio Rubino. Pierino first appeared in the second issue of the “Corriere dei Piccoli” on January 3, 1909.

The Corriere dei Piccoli, created by Corriere della Sera, was the first weekly magazine of “illustrated stories in color” (the word “comic” didn’t exist yet). The purpose of Corrierino was to spread knowledge to children in a fun and carefree way.

Pierino was drawn with black bobbed hair and eccentric clothes. His family belonged to the upper-middle class, the privileged audience of the Corriere.

Over the years, Pierino has become more deeply rooted in Italian tradition, so much so that even today, he remains the undisputed protagonist of our jokes.

04/09/2024

🇬🇧 Why is it called “Largo la Foppa”?

Few people know that there are still streets with names in the local dialect, and one of these is Largo la Foppa. Today, it’s one of the central hubs of Milan’s nightlife, but it used to be very different.

The area was characterized by a natural depression that collected rainwater. Over the years, this depression was leveled to make it more suitable for building.

Despite this, the name preserves the memory, and even today we call it by the nickname given by our ancestors. In Milanese, “foppa” literally means “ditch.”

27/08/2024

🇬🇧 How Fantacalcio was born

On Via Ausonio 16, just a few steps from the San Vittore prison, there is now a beauty salon. Before the salon, however, there was a bar called Goccia d’Oro, and it was here that, in 1988, one of Italians’ favorite games was born: fantacalcio.

(Literally, it translates to fantasy football)

Try to imagine Milan in 1988—it’s hot, and the European Championship is just around the corner. The father of fantacalcio is Riccardo Albini, and in June 1988, he decided to try out this game he invented with his friends.

He gathered with seven friends at the Goccia d’Oro bar to hold what would become the first-ever fantacalcio auction. The game was so much fun that they wanted to share it with everyone. They wrote a book with all the rules and titled it Serie A Fantacalcio.

At first, the book wasn’t a huge success... but the breakthrough for the group of friends came in 1994. That year, they struck a deal with La Gazzetta dello Sport and organized a “Grand Prize” competition for teams.

70,000 teams participated, far exceeding the initial expectation of 10,000. If they had foreseen a financial bonus for each team registered beyond that threshold, they would be millionaires today.

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